Global warming may melt Greenland's ice

[dArKeR]

Greenland's icy mountains and the island's entire ice cap could disappear in the next 1 000 years because of global warming, European scientists warn on Thursday.

If that occurs sea levels will rise by seven metres, drowning low-level coastlines around the world.

Greenland is covered by the biggest ice sheet in the northern hemisphere: almost 1 235 200 square kilometres of ice which is up to 3 kilomtres thick, the base of which is below sea level.

But Jonathan Gregory, of the Hadley Centre for climate prediction at the University of Reading, and colleagues from Brussels and Bremerhaven, report in the journal Nature that an average annual warming in the region of 2,7C would mean that the rate of melting would outpace the annual snowfall.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=33955

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Like the idiots in charge can think 1,000 MINUTES ahead

let alone 1,000 years. Just as long as the bottom line is looking good who cares about little details like a bunch of melted ice?

<sarcasm = off>

[nedlogg]

2. Great!

I'll finally get the waterfront property I've always wanted!

[lapfog_1]

3. Long before...

the ice melts completely, the cold water runoff will disrupt
the flow of the Gulf Stream, major climate changes for Europe,
possibly to the point of no crops or much shortened growing
season, large increase in the use of hydrocarbon heating in
elongated winters...

global warming does NOT mean uniform warmer tempuratures
across the entire planet... and climate change may WELL be
a much more rapid event than previously thought... much like
a titration point in chemical reations.